Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] what does btape actually do?

2014-03-27 15:28:49
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] what does btape actually do?
From: Randy Schultz <schulra AT earlham DOT edu>
To: bacula-users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Radosław Korzeniewski spaketh thusly:

-}
-}Are you sure that tape library drive index 0 is system device /dev/nsa0?
-}What mt -f /dev/nsa0 status show to you?

mt -f /dev/nsa0 status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------available modes---------
0:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
1:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
2:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
3:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0


mt -f /dev/nsa1 status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------available modes---------
0:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
1:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
2:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
3:        0x58                 variable       0        0x1
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0



-}I bet that /dev/nsa1 is a drive index 0 and /dev/nsa0 is a drive index 1.

Aahh, I had not thought of that scenario.  Tnx much.

--
 Randy    (schulra AT earlham DOT edu)      765.983.1283         <*>

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
     - Siddhartha Gautama
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>